This document provides an overview and comparison of the Gluster and Ceph distributed storage systems. It discusses the history and architecture of each system. Both Gluster and Ceph were created in the 2000s as software-defined storage solutions and later acquired by Red Hat. Key differences are that Gluster provides a POSIX filesystem and FUSE mount while Ceph is an object store with a REST interface. Both can be used natively with Kubernetes and OpenShift. The document concludes with information on demoing Gluster storage on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.